Because they don’t get listed by browse.feddit.de you’ll want to browse https://kbin.social/magazines to browse “magazines”, which is what they call communities
e.g. [email protected]
or directly, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration
Why YSK: Federation literally just synched up thanks to the tireless efforts by @[email protected] over the past few days.
Jerboa seems to crash when clicking links with the ! point but I can do it from the desktop browser. This is great!
Smoothest crash ever tho!
Had to try and it yep it is.
This is being worked on on the Jerboa github. Sounds like it’ll be addressed or at least mostly addressed in the next release.
Glad to hear!
Vulcan is reading this from kbin.social
The federation is now active and hello!
Great news, thanks for the heads-up! Hopefully, though, we get some way to search both Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines through one browser.
Having to use browse.feddit.de and kbin.social/magazines separately doesn’t seem optimal.
yeah kbin and lemmy don’t seem to interact very well… having two separate hives that don’t talk to each other isn’t good for the fediverse, it creates unnecessary fragmentation :(
I tried joining some kbin magazines from here (E.G: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] and https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] ). It did work but I’m unable to see any post from those communities. Instead the one you linked ( https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] ) works perfectly (even for newest posts/comments). Is there any fix ? EDIT: To add more troubleshooting info, It doesn’t say pending, it correctly says “joined” but still no posts.
The federation/sync of content seem to be slow and work on the newest posts first.
First time I checked https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] I only saw one post but now there are four.
And a whole lot more at the original: https://kbin.social/m/CatsYeah but I got to c/Vancouver for example but idk how to subscribe from kbin as I don’t see a button from that :/
This has been the most fascinating last few days. Hello Lemmy from Kbin~
Hot damn that is awesome
Hello there! :D
So cool ^^
Time to start digging through communities/magazines for places to be!Stop by https://lemmy.fmhy.ml and check out our communities!
Does this mean you are posting this on lemmy.world and I am reading it on kbin?
For those of us new to the fediverse, this is so exciting!
Haha yep, this community is hosted on lemmy.world! And you’re commenting from kbin. That’s so cool!
Oh, i actually didn’t know Kbin (despite these posts lol) was being seen from Lemmy. Iirc when i first saw Kbin a few days ago, Kbin could see Lemmy but Lemmy couldn’t see Kbin. Ie it’s like it was a partial federation.
I’m curious on if that was accurate and if it was, what caused it in a technical sense. Given i’m a dev working on some ActivityPub stuff, i’m quite interested in it. Though i’ve not yet used the spec, clearly hah.
It was disabled until mere hours ago!
So does that mean I can see kbin posts in lemmy.world? I’m using the mlem app on IOS btw
It was blocked by kbin having cloudflare DDoS protection enabled to reduce server load. I guess that blocks federation.
Hmm, surely there must be a way to whitelist other instances you want to federate with so they don’t get blocked by cloudflare…
I’m sure you can do that in cloudflare but it’d require whitelisting every Lemmy instance that you want to federate with on kbin’s end, which is a bit much.
It’s super cool! My mind is now blown!
Wow this is neat!
How can I tell that a post is from another instance when browsing on Kbin? Just scanning the card for this thread, it isn’t apparent that it’s federated content.
If you have the top bar enabled, you can see it at the top on the right hand side.
@livus @CodingAndCoffee And now I’m replying to it from Mastodon!
wow interesting. Mastadon has a decent app in place too doesn’t it? That might be the best usage experience for me actually. Mastadon on the phone, Kbin on a desktop. Especially if it all links up.
@waterbottleonashelf @CodingAndCoffee @livus this is what I’m sticking to as a replacement to reddit/app. I’ve been mainly visiting #kbin on desktop but now that it’s federated, a lot of magazines/threads I follow are showing up in my Mastodon app. This #fediverse stuff is great!
Is looking at the username how you can tell where a post is coming from? I was so confused a while ago with posts saying “something something fellow Beehaw users!” and it was marked as (kbin.social) lol.
Yeah, that part is a little confusing. Because this is a link aggregation site, it’s currently set up to show the domain of whatever link is in the thread. But if it’s just a text post, because it’s being brought over here it self-reports that we’re looking at kbin.social.
If you have the top bar enabled from settings you can see where you’re currently looking at the top right.
Yup, exactly. Welcome to the fediverse!
Can we please call it literally anything else? I’m tired of “verses”.
Sure. Welcome to the federanus.
The backdoor of the internet.
A very deep hole to go into
Welcome to the Federales
…which is now open for business!
Thank you, much better
It’s late where I am. I’m still laughing though, thank you very much :-D
@iAmTheTot @CodingAndCoffee @livus @BreadDog It has been the Fediverse long before the other Verses came long.
Universe definitely came along first
@themz true.
My home Lemmy doesn’t seem to be able to find communities on kbin, when I search for something like [email protected] it just never resolves. :-/
Try pasting the browser url as it is in kbin, instead of using the Lemmy syntax. I know it’s goofy but it works.
Neither seems to work for me, maybe federation is overloaded with the sudden influx? I’ll report back if it ends up working.
same
I’ve tried all different ways to find https://kbin.social/m/mma but none of them are federating
I was able to find the RedditMigration ‘magazine’ though, so it is hit or miss for me
That explains why I’ve been seeing some people saying “magazine”
I wish Kbin and Lemmy could agree on a format for linking communities
That is so exciting, all of us playing together in here is such a cool concept.
When I click those links I can’t really interact with those post without logging in, which I can’t because I’m on Lemmy and kbin doesn’t know me. But when I find those posts in the wild I can. My brain overloades a little bit.
It’s a bit annoying, but I think (someone correct me if I’m wrong!) you would need to paste the link to the kbin communities you want to join or interact with into your lemmy instance (e.g. lemmy.world, lemmy.ml) in the format of [email protected] (with the exclamation mark) to see that community as the federated cached version available to your instance. You can then subscribe to the community while viewing that way to see it in your feed going forward. This works best on desktop, or desktop view in a mobile browser.
But yeah ideally links in lemmy would link to the ! link if available, and not the /c/ link so that you stay in your logged-in environment.
@CodingAndCoffee So you’re saying I can reply to this from Mastodon also?
EDIT: please reply if you see this from kbin/lemmy 😅
You’re on mastodon? I’m on kbin! Wow!
And I see both of your replies on lemmy, in the Jerboa app. What a time to be alive!
I see you from Lemmy.one
I thought mastodon was a “twitter” like site… how would you be viewing Lemmy stuff?
It IS a Twitter-like site. It displays posts in more of a Twitter style. That being said - it is also part of the Fediverse, so theoretically you should be able to see all federated communities on any fediverse instance of your choosing.
Personally, I have a kbin.social account and a mastodon.social account. I’m doing this because Mastodon doesn’t really present threads from kbin or lemmy in an easily digestable way, so I will use kbin as my reddit replacement, and Mastodon to replace Twitter.
So if I had the mastodon app, is there anything I can do with that? Or what would you be signed into to reply back? (Ie) I’m signed into my lemmy.fmhy.ml account, where would I sign into mastodon… tho, I’d like to create another instance to use more like my previous Reddit account
So you would have to sign up for a Mastodon instance to log on to the Mastodon app (I.e. Mastodon.social, mstdn.social, mstdn.es, etc). Similar to the fact that you’re signed in to a Lemmy instance right now on lemmy.fmhy.com there are other Lemmy instances such as lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, Beehaw.org, etc.
Your Mastodon account would be completely separate from your Lemmy account.
Does that make sense? Not sure if I explained that we’ll.
It makes sense they are separate, but I’m just not following the part where you’d sign in the mastodon app… (when to me it acts like twitter)
I do have a mastodon account btw
Seeing this from kbin. The future is now.
Haha tried making an account on kbin.social - can’t log in.
The future is tomorrow.
Hello mastodon user. I’m seeing this on kbin.social as part of a “lemmy.world” thread. On kbin we have magazines (like reddit’s subreddits). This magazine is “[email protected]”. Your post is showing up as a comment in this thread. I’m doing a comment reply/response to yours.
I see you from the Beehaw lemmy instance!
I didn’t expect this so soon. Great job, Earnest and team!
What’s the difference between kbin and Lemmy? I thought they were just different instances of the same open source project with different host names.
They are different software with a compatible protocol also used by a handful of other software including Mastodon. There are other kbin instances like fedia.io and there are hundreds of Lemmy instances.
Since the beginning of the Reddit blackout, kbin.social had been running in isolation due to server load. Now it is fully integrated with the rest of us (I’m not on kbin at the moment).
Different software. Kbin is written in PHP, Lemmy with Rust.
PHP?! Jesus Christ!
I know! Why would they do that to themselves!
hey don’t kink shame!
Honestly, this clears so much up for me :). It’s the only reasonable assumption, it’s gotta be a masochism thing haha.
Lemmy and kbin are completely different Software but they can talk to each other with the same protocol.
Just started adding subscriptions to kbin magazines and I think it’s starting to sink in that there is actually a decent-sized community growing here with a LOT more potential. The FediVerse being decentralized makes things feel a bit empty at first as it is now, but once you start hooking up to other platforms’ content it immediately feels twice as big. The trick over time will be cross-platform development efforts that make things look and feel more seamless.
Certainly in this case, because of how how much traffic kbin.social was getting and how long it was running unfederated.
Seeing lemmy posts on kbin this morning has me so excited. I don’t even know how the R site can even compete with the fediverse at this rate
